Mail Servers (OT)

[Ghetti, Ron]

You know Scott, that is a brilliant idea, the server load is low
But the load on the sonicwall is fairly high with web traffic etc.
Let me look into that.


Thanks for the reply



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on 5-12-2010 11:14 AM Ghetti, Ron spake the following:
>  
> thanks for the reply Ken,
> yep, I've been through that section a couple of times, believe me.
> it looks like the firewall is doing the connection dropping, only on
emails with attachments
> from comcast servers and randomly at that, many of them get through
fine.
> we are running a sonicwall 4100 with built-in virus/malware scanning.
> our system is processing about 5k messages per day and it's all
running 
> pretty smoothly with this one exception that has shown up in the past
couple weeks.
>  
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>  
> -Ron
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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of Ken A
> Sent: Wed 5/12/2010 9:12 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: Mail Servers (OT)
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> define(`NOT_RELATED_TO_MAILSCANNER')
> 
> Some troubleshooting is in order. 
> http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#timeouts
> 
> Ken
> 
> On 5/11/2010 4:31 PM, Ghetti, Ron wrote:
>>
>> ok, slightly off topic but our mail server is suffering transferis 
>> interuptis only with comcast servers over the past few weeks.
>>
>> running postfix  + mailscanner on ubuntu linux
>>
>> reasonably current on everything, this is something that just 
>> started, appears to possibly be my firewall doing the interupting but

>> I'm not convinced. my logs say lost connection after Data.
>>
>> I know this is pretty general but wondering if anyone has run into 
>> something similar ?
>>
>>
>> much thanks
>>
>> -Ron
>>
Could your sonicwall be delaying the messages long enough for postfix to
time out and drop the connections?

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